KBCraig
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He's been out for months, and is allowed to live with his parents and kids.
He was halfway to N. Haverhill for a court hearing a few weeks ago when they decided to cancel it.
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NH road rage shooting
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He was halfway to N. Haverhill for a court hearing a few weeks ago when they decided to cancel it.
Regardless of what the guy may or may not have done it should be illegal to ice people like that. run the f***ing trial and get it done…. this happened before covid and it’s still not done yet. It basically amounts to extrajudicial punishment…
It's almost like there should have been some foresight for this. Like maybe a constitutional amendment! Wait a second...
Sadly, the 6th Amendment is just another thing that gets ignored and violated on the routine.
Courts were closed for almost a year because of covid so a year of delay is somewhat explainable and a normal case probably goes to trial in a year. So this should have gone to trial spring 2021, especially because this is a serious criminal case, not a civil case. We’ll be 2 years beyond that at a minimum, that’s ridiculous unless it’s part of the defense strategy.
In Massachusetts a friend of a friend was arrested for at least his 4th DUI in November 2018. They’ve had pre trial conferences from then through early 2022 when it was finally suppose to go to trial. That trial date was postponed several times since and was supposed to go last week. Nope, was postponed to March now. At that point it will be 4 1/2 years which even with covid delays is ridiculous. He’s been out since the morning after so he hasn’t been doing time but I have to believe his legal expenses are quite high for this type of crime.
I haven’t talked to him about the case but I have to assume they want jail time because if the prosecution would be ok with 2 years probation, drunk classes etc he would have taken that years ago. He’s not worried about losing his license because he lost that on a DUI 15 years ago and never got it back nor stopped driving
Is he on home detention or can he work, leave the house etc? If he can’t earn a living, even being out he’s suffering a great financial pain. Some prosecutors seem to use the process and the financial costs are a pre trial or even pre arrest punishment. They’ll use the costs as a sledgehammer to compel a plea or a punishment even if no charges are ever filed. The feds seem to do this fairly often especially in politically charged cases.
HARRYM
NES Member
From what has been put out there the NH authorities made a decision to put the boots to him because he apparently has a history of road raging. The state has put together a long list of people who are willing to testify against him (its like 80 something people) and his new lawyers filed a request to have ALL the witnesses sequestered during the trial.
NHKevin
NES Member
We should have a right to a speedy trial.
HARRYM
NES Member
HARRYM
NES Member
80 witnesses. What is it they intend to say, take a guess, I have no clue. The articles have been written in the Union Leader (behind a paywall)
I make no judgements as I wasn't there. But I have read enough articles to form the opinion that the state of Nh intends to paint Brown as a serial road rager.
An article I saw says 62 witnesses. Some of those are from alleged road rage incidents where more than one person was in the other car so the umber of incidents isn’t 62 but it seems like it wasn’t a rare event either.
Here are the 7 a union leader article listed. Like sexual assault allegations, the shear number lends to credibility since none of the accusers know each other, plus what’s the motive to report these if there’s no damage, etc. also some people took pictures, many got license plate numbers and their claims are very similar.
You need to list all possible witnesses you’ll call in advance, that doesn’t mean a judge will allow all of them. If a stadium full of people witness a shooting, a judge won’t allow 25,000 witnesses to say the same testimony, that’s called cumulative evidence and it’s not allowed. The judge will allow a certain number but it will be limited.
To further enlighten the court,” Pastore said, the state’s investigation has found “SEVEN other instances of road rage and aggression by the defendant with chilling similarity to what he unleashed on the victim.”
According to the state’s objection to the motion to dismiss the case:
On July 16, 2017, a woman reported that a Volvo SUV, with the license plate NH 4116562 — which Pastore said Brown later transferred to the Ford Flex — “tried to ram her vehicle from behind” while she was in the area of the Danbury Country Store on Route 4. The Volvo pulled out across the double yellow lines and “brake checked” the woman.
On Oct. 13, 2018, a driver on Route 4 in Grafton reported that a vehicle was tailgating him and flashing its lights. That vehicle passed the driver on a straightaway, then cut in front of him and “slammed on the brakes.” That vehicle, Pastore wrote, “with NH 4116562 plates then turned left onto Prescott Hill Road.”
On April 10, 2019, three men were driving on Route 4 when Brown in his Ford Flex drove up behind their vehicle. From a distance of a few feet away, Brown allegedly passed the other vehicle and “slammed on his brakes and came to a complete stop in the roadway,” causing the other driver to do the same. A person in the vehicle took a picture of the license plate of the Ford Flex (NH 4116562) and it was determined that it was registered to Brown.
On April 13, a woman was driving on Route 4 in the area of Danbury/Andover where the speed limit was 35 miles per hour when she saw a Ford truck tailgating her and coming “close to hitting her.” When the speed limit increased to 50 mph, the Ford passed the woman on a double-yellow line, cut her off and slammed on its brakes. The woman, who later was able to discern that the vehicle was a Ford Flex, nearly hit it. She stopped to avoid a collision, while the Ford drove away. She said the driver was a “male with short black hair and a stockier build” and after seeing news reports about the Grafton shooting with a picture of the suspect vehicle, “she knew it was the vehicle that almost hit her on Route 4.”
On April 26, the same Ford Flex, said Pastore, was engaged in an incident on the Everett Turnpike with a Honda Accord. A witness said the Honda was trying to change lanes and go around the Ford Flex, “but every time the Honda tried to do this, the Ford Flex would cut off the Honda very closely. As one point, both cars were in the grass on the median and even into the breakdown lane. They were going back and forth across the highway.” Both vehicles exited the highway at Exit 11 in Merrimack, with the driver of the Ford Flex slamming on his brakes and coming to “a complete halt” in the exit lane, causing the Honda to nearly rear-end it.
On April 27, two couples were driving on Route 4 in a vehicle when a Ford Flex “flew past them and stopped so suddenly” that one of the rear-seat passengers “hit her head on the seat in front of her.” The Ford Flex “stopped short again, and, in fact, did so three times before the driver took off.” The people in the vehicle were able to recall the first few digits of the Ford Flex and later, one of them, while watching a TV news story about the April 29 road-rage shooting recognized it as the same model and color as the SUV she and the others had encountered two days earlier.
On June 4, a Grafton man said that a few months earlier he had gone to a gas station in Danbury to fill a 26-gallon tank in the back of his pickup. The man, who knew Brown, noticed Brown had also stopped there. Driving slowly so as not to spill the fuel, the man said he saw Brown driving behind him with flashing lights. The man let Brown pass and when Brown was in front of the pickup, Brown “slammed on the brakes.” When the two drivers got closer to their destinations, Brown came to a stop and waited for the man who likewise stopped but did not drive around Brown, saying that “he did not want anything to do with Brown.”
Brown is due back in court on June 28 for a bail hearing.
KBCraig
NES Member
I went back to check my messages, and I had one from August 14 2021 from a friend of his, saying he'd been released to house arrest at her house.
Some time after that (I don't recall when), he was given actual bail and allowed to live with his parents and kids (his wife died from cancer about 2014 or so).
Still no trial date.
Some time after that (I don't recall when), he was given actual bail and allowed to live with his parents and kids (his wife died from cancer about 2014 or so).
Still no trial date.
